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DBT

Data Build Tool

What is DBT?

DBT is a framework that combines SQL with software engineering best practices to make data transformation reliable, fast, and fun.

It seeks to make the process intuitive and accessible to people who will write simple SQL codes, allowing them to build data engineering workflows.

What does DBT allows?

  • Quickly and easily provide clean, transformed data ready for analysis.
  • Apply Software Engineering practices, such as modular code, version control, testing and continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD)​
  • Create modular and modular code with Jinja​
  • Maintain documentation and data definitions within DBT​
  • Perform data updates simply within DBT Cloud​
  • Perform automated tests

Advantages

  • It is intuitive and anyone who knows how to write SQL SELECT statements could start creating models.
  • DBT accelerates the data transformation and integration process.
  • DBT performs calculations at the database level which makes your transformation process faster and easier to maintain.

How may I start with DBT?

Learn SQL

Learn Modeling

Learn GIT

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